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In 2007, ChristianaCare saw 457,348 outpatient visits, 55,512 admissions and 7,100 childbirths. [5] ChristianaCare provided $35.7 million in charity care in 2007. [5] With more than 10,000 employees, it is one of the largest private employers in Delaware and among the top 10 in the greater Philadelphia region. [6]
The Catholic Church in Albania (Albanian: Kisha Katolike në Shqipëri) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. At the 2023 census, the percentage of Catholics was 8.38%.
Gjadër is a settlement in the Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. [1] With the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Lezhë . [ 2 ] It is known for the former military air base made famous during the Cold War .
Gjeçovi was born on 12 July 1874 (some sources mention 3 October 1873 [2]) in Janjevo, Prizren Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Kosovo). [1] He was educated by the Franciscans in Bosnia (under control of Austria-Hungary) and moved to Ottoman Albania in 1896, having become a priest, and spent the years between 1905 and 1920 among the Albanian highland tribes, collecting oral literature, tribal law ...
[2] [3] In the early 16th century, there were Jewish settlements in most of major cities of Albania such as Berat, Elbasan, Vlorë, Durrës and also they are reported as well in Kosovo region. These Jewish families were mainly of Sephardi origin and descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews expelled from Iberia in the end of 15th century.
On November 3 and 4, 2006, at the new Monastery of St. Vlash in Durrës, there was a special Clergy-Laity Assembly of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, attended by 257 representatives (including all clergy members). At this Assembly the New Constitution (Statute) of the Church was analyzed and accept unanimously.
[4] [5] Johann Georg von Hahn (1854) was the first to derive the term Shqiptar from the Albanian verbs shqipoj ("to speak clearly") and shqiptoj ("to speak out, pronounce"), [6] while Gustav Meyer (1891) was the first to derive shqipoj from the Latin verb excipere, denoting people who speak the same language, [6] similar to the ethno-linguistic ...
Petro Zheji (18 October 1929 – 14 March 2015 [1]) was an Albanian linguist, translator, philosopher and author.He lived and worked intellectually in Tirana. [2] As a polyglot, he was deeply knowledgeable in the Italian, French, English, Spanish, German, Russian, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, and Latin languages. [1]